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Today, MPs will debate a new data protection framework, the Data Protection Bill, which will govern how the UK Government, companies and individuals can access, use, and protect personal information. This is an extremely important Bill; in the digital and information age we live in, personal data and information are essential and unavoidable part of […]

Welcome to Big Brother Watch in 2018. We’ve already been given an idea of some of the key surveillance threats to the public’s privacy and civil liberties to come over the next year: the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Tony Porter, has published his Annual Report for 2016/17. The Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Report reveals an expanding of […]

Today, one day before Parliament rises for Christmas, the annual reports of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioner have been published. These are the final reports published by these Commissioners as their roles will now be taken over by the new Investigatory Powers Commissioners Office (IPCO) under the Investigatory Powers Act. […]

Big Brother Watch is pleased to announce Silkie Carlo as the organisation’s new Director. Current Chief Executive Renate Samson will be leaving Big Brother Watch at the end of the year, with Silkie joining the team as Director in January. Silkie has an illustrious background in campaigning for privacy and civil liberties and challenging the […]

The Science and Technology Committee have today published a letter sent to them from Baroness Williams on behalf of the Government. Thanks to the publication we have learned that the Government have given the police operational powers to use facial biometrics and facial recognition systems as a policy decision. In the letter Baroness Williams states […]